Rage Against The Machine?

Saturday, 8th October 1442 EVE

Eagle and his comrade's eyes gleamed when they saw the Assassin karambit and the 3 bladed cyclone twister throwing knife when I showed him the rest that's inside the crate.

I don't have to start explaining the things to them because they had seen these before back in the Shadows Guild and was considered as a museum piece for display only.

When Eagle held the Assassin's Karambit in his hand, he seemed to be able to flip it through his fingers in such a manner that it looked like a plaything to him. The 3 blades cyclone twister throwing knife was very cute looking as it was compact. A single press of the button releases the three blades from its sheath in the centre and it became a deadly weapon in the hands of the beholder.

"Your Majesty, these pieces are considered as archaic and had been kept within our Shadows Guild and preserved."

"Those were the last known piece and right here, we are holding to such brand new pieces like as if it had just come out from the production lines...!"

"You see this twin curved dagger that I had it upgraded in Old Jack's Blacksmith? It was actually a redesign from the original Assassin's Karambit here I am holding...!"

"Oh My God...! These pieces are truly archaic and here in holding them like it was made for today...!"

"The design... The feel... The authenticity of its deadly blades, calling out to drawn its first blood. Foo whee...! I really love these pieces, Your Majesty."

Eagle and his was so happy and super delighted that they had laid their hands on the original, long lost and forgotten weapon that the New Vagabond Assassins Army that once wielded them.

Somehow I guessed that time had overlapped between the era of the parallel universe and the past 300 years.

If not, how would Eagle recognise these types of weapons to exist in Robin the Hood's timeline?

"Ah well, at least it pays to have some spare weapons on you to use, right? As an Assassin, we should not be under-equipped. There's a set of throwing knives too, thin double edges blades with a pointed tip. Guess it would be great to have them too."

I suggested and of course, Eagle and his comrade are excited to have them since we are all assassins. Besides, those two before me had upgraded their professions to be similar to me — Ranger-Assassins.

"Ceres, after I had changed the armour piercing bladed arrowhead to the alloy shaft, what is the damage rating for it now?"

I had to ask since I was told that the normal one the to had brought back to the realm had a +15 damage. If Ceres had not mentioned about the damage rating et cetera, would u even bother to ask?

"It's considered as a new arrow, Audemars. The damage output for the new weapon is now at +18."

"It had a bleeding effect and besides, if you could imbue them with your special abilities like the fireball and the eye of the sun, the arrows would have an increased to up to 300% damage output per hit."

I was about to excuse myself to go to the centre of the small island of the duck pond when I stopped in my tracks when Ceres mentioned to me about fireballs which I could conjure up.

"Fireballs imbued into arrows? How could it be? Could it be possible to even do that? My Gosh...! In that case, I do not have to use many skills at all and could use a Body Shot or a Point Blank Shot to settle on one enemy before I moved on to the next...! "

I nearly screamed my head off and this shocked the rest of the men and thought that I had gone a bit cuckoo and talked to myself as I was gesticulating with my hands in the air and talking to no one in particular...!

"Yes Audemars, I would be able to show you a set of images where you were able to conjure up your fireball and imbue them into a blade. That was before me and it was handled by Max. But I am able to bring it up for you to view how it was done, alright?"

Ceres replied to me and explained that I could be able to do just that and I was delighted to hear that.

I don't have to conjure up a fireball that would need to be buried deep in the earth if I happen to conjure one but instead, I could imbue them into a weapon instead. How cool is that?

"Alright, show me then, Ceres. I'm going to meditate now and after this, I would be going to the realm and nake reproduction of these new arrows for the men to use."

I was already at the small island in the centre of the duck pond where I saw down crossed legged and started my meditation with the box of the arrow in my hand.

I was in the vortex and then a set of flurry images began to fly past me and I soon saw my former self as a young kid with the young man beside me, wearing a kind of robe with some designs on it.

I saw my former self was walking with the young man and wielding a short 3 feet long blade with two hands. There's nothing special with the blade and the handle was wrapped with a kind of cloth and this extends the blade to almost 4 feet in total length.

"Hiko-sama, see me how I use my Kamehameha and fuse with this Kodachi and see how I continuously hit that top area of the mountain, alright?"

I saw the blade the young former self of mine was holding on glowed reddish-orange as I could feel the energy of the fireball travels from the hands right into the blade.

The blade could be swung around as if it was made to be that manner but as the young boy aimed and swung his blade towards the mountain top several miles away, the fireball that took the shape of a crescent blade was unleashed and rushed forward and exploded at the intended target.

After he had done that for several times, he just sheathed the so-called Kodachi blade and the fiery reddish-orange glow diminished as if it was not there in the first place...!

"Alright Audemars, I had shown you the part. You had not entered many battles back then, even right to date, and had the assistance of others that travel with you to do all your dirty work."

*OUCH*

That last sentence struck me like an arrow that I could not block straight into my heart and soul...!

Dirty work?

When did Ceres, my guidance system could have turned so sarcastic towards me?

Doesn't this guidance system actually have no soul thus have no emotions and humanly feelings affecting the host or something?

Hmph... We will see about it if I am depending on others to do my own dirty work, shall we?

From my subconscious mind, that was showing all those images earlier on, j entered the realm and was having a bit of psychological defect after what Ceres had mentioned earlier.

Even if it's a guidance system, but do the words need to be a bit saucy?

Sigh...

I checked all the perfect quality red rubies that I had placed in most of the machines and moved all the crates into a designated place so I could reach in and grab those gemstones that I need to enhance into weapons, shields or armours in the future.

The spatial storage pouches had not been refilled yet so I would be entering here once again to pour out all the gems collected into its respective crates.

Now I had the red rubies and blue sapphires that had been enhanced from their previous state right up to perfect quality gemstones and I decided to shut Ceres mouth since I was labelled as letting others do my dirty work.

I went over to the green emeralds and took all the gemstones from the crates and dumped everything inside one single machine. Since ai am the host and Ceres is just a guidance system, well, its time to show who is the real boss here.

"Ceres, start the count." I curtly said to it as I prepared the Stanspar shards that I had been collecting all these while.

After some time, Ceres voice sounded over the realm and informed me the thousands of shards that need to be filled into the single machine.

I then scooped and dumped the shards into the machine until Ceres sounded once again when it comes to a two-digit figure as I then slowly began to count off the remaining pieces.

Ceres seemed to be to sense my displeasure and it knew I was taking out against the guidance system. It may sound absurd but I was practically fighting with the guidance system that no one else can see. Hahahaha. Am I being so petty?

Once I had done with the green emeralds, I proceeded to do the same to the clear diamonds as well. In the end, I had virtually dumped two machines to bear the brunt of my temper as each of the two machines have to churn out everything the I had loaded into it to turn those gemstones into perfect quality ones.

The armour piercing bladed that I had was placed into another machine. The machine was reset to default as I carefully chose to duplicate it for half a dozen pieces only.

After it was done, I removed all but leaving one in the machine they had duplicated it and distributed the armour piercing bladed arrowhead into 5 other machines.

I made sure the machines were reset to default and I turned the dial to 5000 pieces for all the machines they would be reproducing the armour piercing bladed arrowhead.

By the end of its cycle, all 6 machines would be reproducing 30,000 armour piercing blades arrowhead.

I don't care how long it would take as long as it does its dirty work for me...! Muuaahhaahhaahhaa....!

I let out an evil laugh as it got louder and it resounded throughout the whole realm. "Ceres, calculate the time of completion."

"500 hours towards completion. Runs on 6 machines so it would be approximately slightly over 83 hours. Real-time 27½ hours towards completion of all 30,000 armour piercing bladed arrowhead."

Ceres was instructed and it too answered in the shortest reply as possible. If there would be anything that needs further explanation, then the guidance system would be relating all the necessary information.

Other than that, it would keep its sentiments to itself...!

I set all the necessary crates in the marked out receiving end of the machines and ensure they I have more than enough crates, especially for the 5000 of those armour piercing bladed arrowheads they would be given to all the Rangers and Archers in a day's time.

Once I had done the tasks, it's time for me to head back to the real world and see why else I could let others do my dirty work. Muuuaaahahahaha...!

I had nothing to bring back to the real world from either the White Room, Blacksmith or the Smelting Room and sat down on the ground as I meditated off and entered the vortex and back to the real world in the centre of the small field of the duck pond.

"Hey guys, what are you worrying about? Don't think too much about those orcs information that I had given out earlier. It would be better if we are forewarned rather than realising the fact at the last minute."

"Does the information state on their Archilles heel or something that we need to be focusing on to make a difference between victory or defeat?"

All the men were sitting around in a circle around a small fireplace where they were making some fruity tea.

At the same time, someone had prepared a pottage that consisted of grains within it.

It had been so long since we had eaten a thick gruel with mixed meat and vegetables and the cauldron that had earlier been drained of its contents were being processed to make gruel instead.

It is such a welcome on this cold mid-autumn nights.

"Your Majesty won't mind eating gruel with us? It's pretty basic and simple, you know?" one of the men asked and I simply replied, "It fills the stomach and gives us the sustenance we needed right?"

The men nodded their heads in agreement and were glad that I am not entirely fussy when comes to food.